KSSG now has a state-of-the-art aptitude assessment solution for selecting surgeons while providing students with early opportunities to identify individual strengths and areas for development.
The Cantonal Hospital of St. Gallen (KSSG) planned to use psychological testing procedures to optimize the selection process for medical graduates wishing to train as surgeons and to evaluate the testing procedures after two years. At the same time, medical students were to be offered a potential analysis at an early stage to identify strengths and areas for development.
Surgeons are facing enormous responsibility in their day-to-day work, which can only be met with the appropriate skills and personality traits. The selection process should therefore be tailored and based on a highly valid and specific profile of requirements. The risk: For students who take part in both the potential analysis and the subsequent selection process, the use of the same test procedures could lead to practice effects that distort the results.